 86 members voted for the union and only 3 against, but 36 representatives abstained and 13 failed to appear.The vote would later be treated as a "quasi-unanimous" expression of the will of the Bessarabian people, but the motion only passed as a result of a compromise with the groups hesitant about the union.The "Sfatul Țării"'s declaration listed 14 special privileges that Bessarabia would retain inside an enlarged Romania